Mission

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Oliver Gospel Mission strives to see that the broken and homeless are sheltered, given the gospel of Jesus Christ, and equipped to live responsibly. We minister to the community's homeless by providing meals, shelter, and spiritual direction. Our Christ-centered Leadership Development Recovery Program (CLD) is designed to help men escape their addictions to drugs and alcohol. This program is devised to transform men's lives from within through biblical teaching, counseling, educational assistance, and guidance in choosing a career and finding employment. For over 120 years Oliver Gospel Mission has done more than feed and shelter the hungry and homeless. The Mission works to transform lives.

Mission

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Oliver Gospel Mission strives to see that the broken and homeless are sheltered, given the gospel of Jesus Christ, and equipped to live responsibly. We minister to the community's homeless by providing meals, shelter, and spiritual direction. Our Christ-centered Leadership Development Recovery Program (CLD) is designed to help men escape their addictions to drugs and alcohol. This program is devised to transform men's lives from within through biblical teaching, counseling, educational assistance, and guidance in choosing a career and finding employment. For over 120 years Oliver Gospel Mission has done more than feed and shelter the hungry and homeless. The Mission works to transform lives.

Results Information

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Results Information

Charting Impact

What is your organization aiming to accomplish?

A. To select the best possible board members to help the organization to fulfill its mission and vision. B. To select the highest quality staff members to help us to fulfill our mission and vision on an operational level. C. To equip those whom we serve to reach their God-given potential in line with organizational mission and vision. D. To provide the best possible facilities and equipment needed for fulfillment of mission and vision. E. To acquire the financial resources in a cost-effective manner that are needed for fulfillment of our mission and vision. F. To ensure that all financial resources are managed in line with the highest possible standard. G. To build and operate a new ministry to homeless women and homeless women with children.

What are your strategies for making this happen?

A. Selection Of Best Possible Board Members: 1. Create policies that clarify board member job descriptions, qualifications, term limits, and Board/CEO roles. 2. Determine the Board's needs in terms of strengths. 3. Work with present members to identify and recruit new members. B. Select Highest Quality Staff: 1. Create clear job descriptions, including core competencies for needed positions. 2. Select best candidates from those identified. C. Equip Those Whom We Serve: 1. Meet spiritual and physical needs (food, clothing, and lodging) for those in need. 2. Provide life skills, education, employment, and life management assistance for those in programs so that they can live responsibly. D. Provide Best Possible Facilities And Equipment: 1. Have met criteria to become a Certified Mission by the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions (AGRM). 2. Employ experienced staff to ensure that property is adequately maintained and updated when needed. E. Acquire Financial Resources In Cost-effective Manner: 1. Employ high quality staff and volunteers to develop and implement effective strategy. 2. To develop and maintain relationships with individuals, businesses, and church donors. 3. To acquire appropriate grants. F. To Ensure That Financial Resources Are Managed In Line With The Highest Possible Standards: 1. Employ high quality staff members for day-to-day operations. 2. Provide the Board of Directors with monthly financial reports. G. To Build A Facility For And To Operate A Ministry To Homeless Women And Homeless Women With Children: 1. To conduct community research to determine need and potential for the project. 2. To raise funds via a capital campaign with plans to break ground in 2016.

What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?

A. Selection And Highest Quality Board Members: 1. Clarity of board qualifications, expectations, and roles along with the Mission's 127 year history helps us be an attractive place to serve. 2. Establishment of strong community connections helps in attracting high quality individuals. B. Selection Of Highest Quality Staff Members: 1. Clear and compelling mission and vision along with fair treatment of staff make this a desirable place to work and stay (average tenure of staff is 6-7 years). C. Equip Those Whom We Serve With Skills Needed To Fulfill Our Mission And Vision: 1. Have created a top-notch program led by high quality staff members to help ensure client success. 2. Association with other like-minded agencies to help us stay on target with our efforts. D. To Provide Best Possible Facilities And Equipment: 1. The Lord has provided us with financial resources needed to purchase what is needed. 2. We make ourselves accountable to community authorities such as DHEC to ensure that we meet acceptable standards (usually score 98% or higher in our food service efforts). 3. We are a mission that has been certified by the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions (AGRM), a national association. E. Acquisition Of Financial Resources: 1. We go to great efforts to communicate and build relationships with our donors, many of which have been supporting us for several years. 2. We constantly work at doing the above as cost-effectively as possible. 3. We receive no government funding. 4. We have made ourselves accountable to the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA) for all of our financial endeavors so as to operate at the highest level of integrity and transparency. F. Management Of Financial Resources: 1. Membership of ECFA as mentioned above. 2. Accountability to Board of Directors. 3. An outside company conducts an annual audit and reports results to Board of Directors. G. Build Facility And Operate New Ministry To Homeless Women And Homeless Women With Children: 1. Strong board and community support for project over the course of time. 2. Already have acquired property with needed zoning and have raised close to 65% of funds needed for project. 3. Organization is in financial condition to pursue such a project.

How will your organization know if you are making progress?

A. Board Members: 1. Have already recruited a strong board with a healthy list of other potential members. B. Staff: 1. As the Mission evolves in its expansion efforts, we continue to attract staff with needed strengths. We ensure that staff are exposed to training to help them to grow and develop. C. Equipping Clients: 1. Last year alone, homeless men who went through our program acquired jobs that generated more than $767K back into the economy. We are helping people to get out of their homeless state. D. Acquiring Financial Resources: 1. We continue to cultivate relationships with present donors and acquire new donors to replace lapsed donors on a regular basis. 2. We make consistent efforts to keep the community updated of our ministry efforts to those in need which helps in acquiring financial resources. 3. We have a donor list of more than 30,000 people. E. Management Of Financial Resources: 1. All sources of accountability as mentioned above continue to give us excellent feedback on our efforts to manage resources with integrity. F. New Ministry To Homeless Women And Homeless Women With Children: 1. Same applies from what else is said above in indicator segment.

What have and haven't you accomplished so far?

A. Board Members: 1. Have already recruited a strong board with a healthy list of other potential members. B. Staff: 1. As the Mission evolves in its expansion efforts, we continue to attract staff with needed strengths. We ensure that staff are exposed to training to help them to grow and develop. C. Equipping Clients: 1. Last year alone, homeless men who went through our program acquired jobs that generated more than $767K back into the economy. We are helping people to get out of their homeless state. D. Acquiring Financial Resources: 1. We continue to cultivate relationships with present donors and acquire new donors to replace lapsed donors on a regular basis. 2. We make consistent efforts to keep the community updated of our ministry efforts to those in need which helps in acquiring financial resources. 3. We have a donor list of more than 30,000 people. E. Management Of Financial Resources: 1. All sources of accountability as mentioned above continue to give us excellent feedback on our efforts to manage resources with integrity. F. New Ministry To Homeless Women And Homeless Women With Children: 1. Beyond what has already been said above, we are in keeping with our timeline to break ground in 2016 and open the facility in 2017.

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